Floor mop



Aug. 28, 1923. I 1,466,169

M. V. HULTQVIST I FLOOR MOP Filed 'June 2:5 i922 INVENT.

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Patented Au 28,1923.

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Application filed June 23, 1922. Serial 110.570300.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, MoR'rnN V. HULTQVIST, a subjectof the King of Sweden, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Floor Mops, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to floor mops and more particularly to those devices wherein the endless strip or woven fabric constituting the mop proper may be twisted by the rotation of the handle so that the water may be wrung from the mop.

The primary object of myinvention is the provision of a floor mop whereinthe handle is provided with a supporting sleeve slidable with respect to the lower end of the mop so as to permit the endless strip to be released from its normal position so that it may be twisted and turned as in the act of wringing to rinse the same preliminary to use.

Another and equally important object of my invention is the construction of a. floor mop of the character above specified which is extremely simple in construction, easily assembled, consisting of butfew parts, highly eflicient in operation and use, practical, durable and capable of being manufactured at an extremely low cost whereby its commercial possibilities are greatly enhanced.

I attain the above objects and others which will be apparent as the description proceeds when taken in connection with the drawing and wherein,

Figure 1 is a side view.

Figure 2 is a plan view.

Figure 3 is a reverse perspective showing the mop or endless strip during the act of wringing.

Figure 4: is a detail showing the support ing loop in its relation with the bottom of the handle and, v

Figure 5 is a detail sectional View of the sleeve and the locking means therefor.

Referring now to the drawings wherein like reference characters designate corresponding parts throughout the several views, 5 designates a handle, the lower reduced end 6 thereof being adapted to receive a twisted stout wire wrapped around the same in a series of 100 s 7" the free end of said wire being formed somewhat in the nature of an ellipse 7 the end 80f which lies adjacent the reduced portion 6 of theihandle and since "r sis. 5

the resiliency of the wire permits of its bending, the mop 9, consisting of anflendless strip, may be passed through the loop 7 as clearly shown by the drawings, It will be observed that the arms 9 extend slightly forwardly so that the horizontal portion 10 of the wire is disposed somewhat in the same plane as the handle 5 above referred to. Slidably mount- Y ed on the handle 5, I ha-veprovided a sliding sleeve designated in itsentirety by numeral 10 which sleeve is provided with. a pair of horizontally extending lugs 11 which receive the bent inwardly extending ends 12 of a pair of curved supporting arms 13, said arms converging toward the front thereof as at 14. and being bent in the form of a loop 15 substantiallythe same width as the loop Tabove The endless strip 9 passing referred to. through the respective loops 7 and 15 would naturally lie taut in the position as shown by Figure l .but when the sleeve 10 is released from the spring pressed button 16 within the handle 5, and slid upwardly thereon since the arms 13 pivot on said sleeve, the mop 9 may thus lie loosely between I the supporting loops 7 and 15 whereupon rotation of the handle. 5 will wring the mop I as is well understood. The tension on the arms 13 due to the rotation of the handle is sufficient to oifset the tendency to twist the said arms from their normal position, it being understood that gravity will tend to cause the mop 9 to lie loosely from the end of the handle, during the act of wringing and that the twisting and turning will take place from the bottom of the handle gradually toward the loop 15 supporting the opposite end of the mop.

l/Vhile I have illustrated and described my invent-ion with some degree of particularity, I realize that in practice various alterations therein may be made. I therefore reserve the right and privilege of changing the form of the details of construction or otherwise altering the arrangement of the correlated parts without departing from the spirit of the invention or the scope of the appended A combined mop and wringer comprising a handle, an open loop secured to the lower end of the handle for receiving one end of a mop fabric, a sliding sleeve carried by the, handle, a pair of arms having; a closed loop at one end thereof, pivotally mounted on the sleeve, means for looking the sleeve adjacent the lower end of the handle whereby V fabricto lie loesely between-the supporting handle during the act of wringing.

the mop fabric is distended, said sleeve being slidaole on the handle permitting the mop elements whereby it may be rotated by the e In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

MORTEN V. HULTQVIST. 

